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- The return of God’s blessing begins with a real confession of sin -
‘our sins are higher than our heads and our guilt has reached to the
heavens’ (9:6). If God chooses to bless us, it is not because we deserve
to be blessed by Him. It is because He loves us and wants more than
anything else to pour out His blessing upon us. Despite all of our sin,
God’s Word encourages us to believe that the Lord may yet ‘grant us a
little reviving’. Pray that God will ‘grant us some reviving to set up
the House of our God’ (9:8-9). This was Ezra’s prayer. It was the prayer
of ‘a very great assembly of men, women and children’ (10:1). If prayer
for revival is real, it will be much more than pulpit prayer. There
will be much prayer, arising from the hearts of many people: ‘If My
people pray... I will heal their land’ (2 Chronicles 7:14).
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